Middle School Gifted Specialist Paradise Valley Unified School District, Arizona
Short description: This session provides gifted educators with the tools and frameworks needed to promote Culturally Sustainable Teaching. This is done by examining ourselves and our classroom practices, developing cultural awareness, fostering cultures of belonging, and addressing instructional approaches to expand perspectives and facilitate real change for all our gifted students.
Learning Outcomes: Participants will:
Learn how to promote Culturally Responsive Teaching and Sustaining Education to battle inequity
Examine themselves and their classroom practices
Develop cultural awareness to facilitate real change for all gifted students